chore: update release please pipeline to support release immutability

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -10,14 +10,17 @@ env:
 jobs:
   release-please:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # to create release commit
+      pull-requests: write # to create release PR
+      issues: write # to create labels
+
     # Release-please creates a PR that tracks all changes
     steps:
       - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@45996ed1f6d02564a971a2fa1b5860e934307cf7 # v5
         id: release
         with:
-          command: manifest
           token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
-          default-branch: main
     outputs:
       release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
       release_tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
         with:
-          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
+          go-version-file: "go.mod"
 
       - name: Install cyclonedx-gomod
         uses: CycloneDX/gh-gomod-generate-sbom@efc74245d6802c8cefd925620515442756c70d8f # v2

.goreleaser.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ changelog:
     exclude:
       - "^docs:"
       - "^test:"
+release:
+  use_existing_draft: true
 sboms:
   - documents:
       - bom.json

release-please-config.json

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 {
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "signoff": "OpenFeature Bot <109696520+openfeaturebot@users.noreply.github.com>",
   "bootstrap-sha": "95df901b104dadc8902117c87d2e412d78d6a620",
   "packages": {
     ".": {
       "release-type": "go",
       "prerelease": false,
+      "draft": true,
+      "force-tag-creation": true,
       "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
       "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
       "extra-files": ["README.md"],
@@ -63,4 +67,4 @@
       ]
     }
   }
-}
+}